Lesotho has been implementing financial management reforms, including performance-based budgeting (PBB) since 2005 in an effort to increase accountability, transparency and effectiveness in governance, yet little is known about how these efforts are affecting the health sector. Supported by several development partners and $24 million in external resources, the PBB reform is intended to strengt...

I represent a group of societies comprising over one-half of the insured population ; and, although I have no authority to speak for societies not within that group, I know from personal experience that the work of your hospitals is highly appreciated by them, and that there is the keenest desire to cooperate with you to the fullest possible extent. Quite early in the career of the Approved Soc...

Modern resource management faces trade-offs in the provision of various ecosystem goods and services to humanity. For fisheries management to develop into an ecosystem-based approach, the goal is not only to maximize economic profits, but to consider equally important conservation and social equity goals. We introduce such a triple-bottom line approach to the management of multi-species fisheri...

INTRODUCTION Rural hospitals in South Africa, as elsewhere, face enduring shortages of, and challenges in attracting and retaining, suitably qualified staff. The Wits Initiative for Rural Health Education (WIRHE), based at the University of the Witwatersrand but covering three universities, is a rural scholarship programme established to find local solutions to these challenges in the North Wes...

cases developing sepsis from 5-6 per cent, to 1-6 per cent., and of suspect cases from 12-4 per cent, to 6-9 per cent. The improved results for suspect cases can only be explained by the better supervision and intensive nursing which they received. This must also have played an important part in the betterment of the clean cases. A " scare " regarding sepsis has a general tonic effect on nursin...

of recent Ministers of Health, 'Hospitals are for people'. We seldom get any glimpse of what the hospitals were really doing and what the condition of the wards in which the patients were nursed was like. When under the Local Government Act of 1929 the Metropolitan Asylums Board handed over its functions to the newly constituted London County Council, what was then the condition of the hospital...

The purpose of the paper is to formulate two uncooperative replenishment models with demand and default risk which are the functions of the trade credit period, i.e., a Nash equilibrium model and a supplier-Stackelberg model. Firstly, we present the optimal results of decentralized decision and centralized decision without trade credit. Secondly, we derive the existence and uniqueness condition...

THE HOSPITALS AND THEIR PURPOSE During the planning for the invasion of Mainland Europe in 1944, (D-Day), one consideration was the possibility of there being large numbers of Civilian casualties, which together with the possibility of severe damage to the local Hospitals, might lead to the Military hospitals being unable to cope. The idea therefore arose of creating small 50 bed mobile Hospita...

1. Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. 2. Prostate Cancer Research Group, Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), Nordic EMBL Partnership, Forskningsparken, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospitals, N0349, Oslo, Norway. 3. Department of Molecular Oncology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospitals, Oslo, Norway. 4. Movember/P...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century a separate team of women called the "night watch" was responsible for the night nursing in the London teaching hospitals. Rough, uneducated, and frequently the "scrubbers," or charwomen, who cleaned the halls and stairways in the hospitals in the daytime, the night watchers came to be closely identified with Dickens's Sarah Gamp. As the century progres...